Canton Cover-Up Part 140: Jen McCabe’s Attorney Kevin Reddington Told Turtleboy He Believes Karen Read Is Innocent
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Kevin Reddington is the high profile attorney representing Jennifer McCabe, who claims to be innocent but still felt the need to hire a man who has defended some of the most notorious criminal defendants in the state. When I first wrote about him in April we got off on the wrong foot, because he showed up on the Turtleboy Facebook page calling me “turd boy,” bragging about the murderers and rapists he got off, and calling me a low level sensationalist loser with a blog. He also said I didn’t want to dance with him.
On top of that he also claimed in a press release that Jennifer McCabe had passed a lie detector test. However, a further examination shows that Reddington has a history of making claims like this on behalf of clients, without providing the actual polygraph results.
When I met him in court on May 3 he seemed to have changed his opinion of me, as he shook my hand, said he did not want to dance anymore, and had come to respect my reporting.
Since then Kevin and I have had occasional back and forth message exchanges on Facebook messenger, starting on the 4th of July when he wrongly thought that I had blocked him, which violated the bro code.
He offered to meet for coffee but we never got around to it.
Reddigton showed up on my page again in mid-July to defend Judge Beverly Cannone, who has gone out of her way to protect his client from handing over exculpatory evidence that could exonerate Karen Read (even more than she’s already been exonerated). This was after I made a post about how Cannone was no longer the presiding judge in the main courtroom of Norfolk Superior Court. I predicted that she would use her seniority as Regional Associate Justice to boot the assigned Judge Daniel O’Shea from the courtroom, and reinsert herself into the case. Kevin assured us all that Judge O’Shea would be presiding, and Cannone would be out.
We now know that that prediction turned out to be completely wrong. However, the fact that an experienced attorney from the OTHER side of this case thought that it would be out of the ordinary for Cannone to appoint herself presiding judge in this case, shows how suspect Cannone’s behavior has been.
On the day of the Canton rolling rally, in which we went to his client’s house to peacefully protest her undeniable involvement in the murder of John O’Keefe, Reddington messaged me late night to not only tell me that he was amazed at my skills as an award winning investigative journalist, but to tell me that he believed Karen Read is innocent. He also told me that we had gotten off on the wrong foot, and that he could use my help defending his client Lindsey Clancy.
I thought about not showing this because it’s a private correspondence. However, I also believe that it’s newsworthy and I never agreed that anything was off the record. The defense attorney for Jennifer McCabe told me that he believes that Karen Read is innocent. If Karen Read didn’t kill John O’Keefe it means that he was killed inside the house where Jennifer McCabe stayed until 1:47 AM, until she went home and Googled “hos long to die in cold.” With this statement Reddington was all but admitting to me that his client was involved in a criminal conspiracy to murder a Boston Police Officer. I’ve never heard of a defense attorney offering this sort of information to a reporter before, but the Karen Read case is full of lots of things that I’ve never seen before.
All Kevin Reddington did was say the silent part out loud. He told me what everyone else on the other side believes as well – Karen Read is innocent. He’s just the first to admit it.
I don’t know, I don’t think he’s saying “she’s innocent” I think he’s saying that you created reasonable doubt, you have presented another plausible scenario, which is all it takes for a jury to find a defendant not guilty! That’s a very good complement coming from a high profile defense attorney.
I interpreted it the same way, he said he created her innocence, not that she was actually innocent. And not that I give a hoot about Jen McCabe, but if I was her, I wouldn’t love that my attorney was talking to TB.
We all know that karma can be a harsh but fair bitch, but sometimes it’s just a total bitch. It’s not enough that the bad guy is a Karma Houdini. It’s not enough that the good guy Can’t Get Away with Nuthin’. It’s not even enough that he’s a Butt-Monkey or The Chew Toy, put through the wringer for no reason. No, sometimes fate isn’t satisfied until disaster befalls the good guy purely as a result of him doing the right thing.
If this happens because the hero helps people who are ungrateful, it can be a case of All of the Other Reindeer or The Farmer and the Viper. If this happens because the hero doesn’t want unnecessary violence, it can be a case of Pacifism Backfire. More often, helping out exposes the hero to some other danger, like the wrath of a villain whose plans were disrupted by the good deed, or the wrath of a populace that is opposed to the method of help, such as in many Burn the Witch! stories that involve actual witches, or being Arrested for Heroism. Or being targeted by people who assume you have Chronic Hero Syndrome and so will be glad to help them for free. On the other hand, it can also happen to a villain making a Sudden Principled Stand or showing that Even Evil Has Standards.
Not every hero can handle this, and if it happens often enough or particularly badly enough, a hero may very well fall. If they stick it through even to the end, knowing what’s coming to them, it shows who they are in the dark.
It should also be noted that this trope is more complicated than it looks. Sometimes good intentions bring unjust punishment, but sometimes good intentions result in very bad results because the good-intentioned person was also foolish, incompetent, ignorant, or just mistaken. In many cases whether a bad outcome was undeserved or not depends on the details.
As Robert Heinlein’s character Lazarus Long observes in one story, “Good intentions are no substitute for knowing how the buzzsaw works.” Which doesn’t mean that life is not often cruelly unjust, it merely means that things are often not as simple as they look at first glance.
Named for a well-known saying attributed to Clare Boothe Luce. The Wide-Eyed Idealist is prone to this, and tends to turn them into a Knight in Sour Armor at best. Very often, it is a consequence of doing Not Quite the Right Thing. Sometimes results from Sparing the Final Mook, if it turns out that said mook is either a Not-So-Harmless Villain or has some other way to cause misery for the good guys. Compare Being Good Sucks, where it’s the act of being good (rather than the deeds themselves) that brings suffering, and contrast Laser-Guided Karma where every deed (good or otherwise) gets paid back in spades. If someone sees a hero going through this, it may lead to Sympathy for the Hero. Compare Androcles’ Lion and Character Witness, two Tropes that can prove the exact opposite.
By its very nature, it frequently overlaps with Nice Job Breaking It, Hero, though it’s entirely possible for this to result from a deed that doesn’t, in and of itself, have bad consequences.
Confusion-but you should def write a book. Or short stories of moral consequences. Touche!!
This is kinda old news as TB talked about this weeks ago, but I understand the need for a constant stories on this case and it is newsworthy. But Kevin old boy is going to be in a heap of shit with the Board of Bar Overseers for this one, making statements to the media that so adversely effect the interests of his client. Not a good look
I’m thinking it’s a long con by Kevin and he’s got a different end game planned
Probably the reason for the article………..
Something brewing
Turtle KR is a great lawyer the go to guy to go to in Plymouth and Norfolf County when your in real trouble, keep it only professional with him for sure. He cut his teethelping a lot of bad people around here over the years. The other top notch attorney is Jw Carney. The DA in Norfolk County has been making certain people’s problems dissappear for years this one was supposed to be easy until you showed up. Not the first dead in the snow high profile case around here, I can’t remember the specifics but someone rode over Polecat Moore on a snowy night in Milton or somewhere, it’s similar to this shitshow if I remember.
Great movie btw.
Old story. You’ve been busy pumping out articles. Rest up for court date coming up. People don’t need new article every day.
People are negative on turtle boy taking a break? He’s not a robot he’s a person.
People will lash out at anyone “disrupting” what they are used to. Low IQ followers wont see a difference between a provocative thought, criticism or a degradation. Forgive them, its just tribalism.
I don’t like you sharing private conversations like this. It’s going to deter people coming forward to you.
“With this statement Reddington was all but admitting to me that his client was involved in a criminal conspiracy to murder a Boston Police Officer. I’ve never heard of a defense attorney offering this sort of information to a reporter before, but the Karen Read case is full of lots of things that I’ve never seen before.”
Holy Moly! I would think this could put his license to practice law in jeopardy. It’s his sole obligation to provide for Jen McCabe’s defense and I have to think that telling a reporter he believes Karen Read is innocent is a huge violation of his obligation to his client’s right to fair representation. I’m no lawyer, so I don’t know the particulars, but this HAS to be something as a representing lawyer he never should done.
Reddington is no fool, make no mistake! He wouldn’t say anything that would get him disbarred or sued, let alone put it in writing! Personally, I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him! Also, he never said he thought Karen Read is innocent, he said Aiden “created Karen’s innocence”! This can be interpreted as he presented another plausible scenario, or due to his reporting public opinion has changed regarding Reads guilt, both are correct!
Love ya TB, BUT, Aidan, you’re playing with fire. Stay the feck away from Reddington. He’s hobnobbed with every single one of those scumbags involved in this cover-up, he’s known them for years, keep playing with fire, you’re bound to get burned.
Totally agree. He’s working with the prosecution. He’s kissing Turtleboy’s behind to find out if he slips up and gives him something he can pass on to the Prosecutor. He’s a well established lawyer that brags about getting deviants of society off on crimes to be free again to hurt others. He is protecting his client and giving off the illusion that he believes Karen is innocent. He doesn’t care whether she goes to jail or not. As long as the client that hired him stays out of jail. I would avoid him like the plague.
While villains often face terrible fates, the life of a hero isn’t always a happy one either. This subtrope of No Good Deed Goes Unpunished pits two heroes against each other.
The trope starts with a bad thing about to happen. Maybe local supervillain Alice is about to rob a bank. Superbob suddenly appears and asks her to stop. A fistfight ensues and Officer Carol arrives. In other words, normally Bob would expect Carol to help him, but as far as Carol is concerned, Bob was the villain. He might be charged with anything from Police Brutality to attempted murder to a charge that had nothing to do with the incident. Sometimes the issue is resolved in a Kangaroo Court and the hero is given Soap Opera Justice. In the worst case scenario, having been fed up with being accused by the others, it can result in Then Let Me Be Evil situation.
Compare Crime of Self-Defense, Miscarriage of Justice, The Lopsided Arm of the Law, Police Brutality Gambit, Wounded Gazelle Gambit, Persona Non Grata, Why Did You Make Me Hit You?, Et Tu, Brute?.
There can be any number of reasons for the decision to arrest the hero:
The arresting officer might turn out to actually be a Dirty Cop, Jerkass, Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop, etc.
It might be normal in that setting, because:
Police Are Useless.
In a setting where Black-and-White Morality holds, the hero Can’t Get Away with Nuthin’ because he’s the hero. It’s OK for the villain to be naughty, because he’s BAD, but the hero has to be held to a higher standard because he’s a role model.
The hero has a bad reputation because he’s Lord Error-Prone, the series’ Butt-Monkey, etc.
The villains are the ones in charge in the first place.
The authorities are honestly concerned that the hero might:
become a Knight Templar if he’s allowed to continue playing vigilante.
harm the villain before he’s had a chance to talk.
actually be guilty of Police Brutality.
be a Destructive Savior, inflicting massive property damage because there’s no such thing as Hero Insurance.
The police are honestly concerned that arresting the villain will backfire, because:
The police will be accused of having a double standard if they ignore the hero’s questionable methods.
The villain will likely be acquitted without airtight evidence.
The villain is known to be a Villain with Good Publicity, Magnificent Bastard, etc., and they suspect the villain will use his arrest to his advantage somehow.
The police had a plan to roll up the villain’s whole operation, which the hero screwed up by acting prematurely.
Often it’s a simple case of bad timing. The cops never actually saw the villain do anything wrong, they have only the hero’s word that it was the villain who broke into the Elaborate Underground Base. Worse, the cops may arrive just in time to see the hero in the middle of something that looks bad out of context.
Alternatively, the villain may set the whole thing up, tricking the hero into doing something wrong in front of witnesses while he himself acts perfectly innocent.
If the perpetrator is a Superhero and on the wrong side of a Super Registration Act, this is pretty much inevitable at some point or another.
It’s also inevitable if use of superhuman powers or “superhuman vigilantism” is outright banned, or if the hero’s activities have been otherwise outlawed.
The authorities are not in on the Masquerade, and don’t believe that the person the hero attacked was a demon or an evil cultist or what have you.
It is a Crapsack World.
In deconstructive works, the authorities may simply be unambiguously correct. After all, even if Doctor Baron von Doominator IS planning to rob a bank at some indefinite point in the future, if he’s not actually in the middle of committing the crime then assaulting him on the street or unlawfully imprisoning him does, in a western democracy, severely violate his civil rights and are themselves crimes. Especially if the hero goes Screw the Rules, I’m Doing What’s Right! and ends up being tried (and even doing time) because of his “heroic act”.
In an optimistic deconstruction, this will cause the hero to re-examine his methods and come up with a better way to do things. In a pessimistic story, they may have actually made the situation worse by destroying their own credibility when it was important that their warning be believed, and lose a round with the villains.
Can result in being locked up In Prison with the Rogues, the ultimate irony where the hero is sent to the same prison as the criminals they previously put behind bars.
Is this the ramblings of a man tweaking on meth, what the fuck are you talking about?!?!?!?
Meth could never… this is coke driven
I love that people will immediately dislike something they don’t understand.
Dude you lost me at subtrope-
Red man is setting the trap to see if TB’s business model is to take $$ from defense attorneys to sway public opinion and blur facts. That would be a major blow to Aido’s “journalistic integrity” I heart TB and just don’t want him to get sucked down a vortex with Red dog
Aidan, do not trust this sneaky bastard. He is part of the good old boys network and will think nothing of crushing you.
You are a good, honest person…but he ain’t you! Do not for a minute think that he has had a change of heart.
Stay vigilant!
talking about dancing and not dancing, I think he wants to take you out on his bike haha
This all can’t be real now. Are we in a twilight zone episode? Is this really just a show on how to be a crooked cop, a suspicious judge , a bad defense attorney, a group of so called adults who never really left high school, and an unbelievably crooked da and ada? I CANTon believe this
When you 1st ran this story I may have posted… don’t take the bait. He’s playing to your ego, it’s a setup. He’s not your friend.
“ You created her innocence” is not “ She’s innocent”. It could be interpreted as “your intervention fabricated her alleged innocence by tampering with the case via misinformation “ Careful.
To be fair, he did not say he believed she was innocent he said you proved and showed her innocence and created reasonable doubt. This is an important distinction.
Keep your friends close.
Keep your enemies…
Closer.
This has to be an imposter. There’s no way an educated high profile attorney has such horrible grammar/punctuation and spelling. There’s also no way they are interacting willy nilly with randos on facebook. I find it incredibly hard to believe that is actually him.